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MONDAY, OCTOBER 22, 2012
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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From left to right, Jill Wenderson, CCO Co-Chair, Matt Araiza, Homecoming Steering Committee Director, Zack McQuiston, Homecoming Steering Committee Publicity Co-Chair, Lindsay Bloom, Homecoming Steering Committee Publicity Co-Chair.
KU homecoming events give back to United Wav
LELLY GRIMM
Homecoming is filled with events geared to celebrate University traditions, but they are also intended to benefit the Lawrence community.
egrimm@kansan.com
Proceeds from many events go to the United Way of Douglas County. Kansas organizations such as the Girl Scouts, Big Brothers Big Sisters, Boys and Girls Club, Douglas County AIDS Project and the Willow Domestic Violence Center benefit from money given to them by the United Way. "Lawrence is such an integral part of the KU experience and being involved is a way to give back," said Steering Committee Director Matt Araiza, a senior from Plano, Texas. "It's also a great way to raise awareness about KU programs."
Fundraising events began yesterday morning with the lajayhawk Jog down Massachusetts Street. The week-long Stuff-the-Bus event also began yesterday at local Dillons
locations. Community members are encouraged to donate non-perishable items that will be distributed by the United Way.
"We mainly looking for canned and dried foods, non-perishable stuff but we're not picky beyond that," said co-publicity chair Zach McQuiston, a senior from Shawnee.
Co-publicity chair Lindsey Bloom, a junior from Overland Park, said that Stuff the-Bus will be a contest between the community members and students as well as between the Dillons locations.
The mural competition will also be used to fundraise. During the competition participating organizations will submit a mural celebrating the University's centennial anniversary. There will be a peoples' choice award given to the mural that has garnered the most donations. The theme for the murals is the same as the homecoming theme, "Century Long, Tradition Strong."
"Students will be able to really get creative with what's happened around here the last 100 years," Bloom said.
There will also be a book drive held throughout homecoming week. People may donate new or gently used books at the Adams Alumni Center to help the United War comit illiteracy. Donations will be taken every day during homecoming week at the Alumni Center from 10:00 a.m-2:00 p.m.
Pregame Pancakes will be served in the Alumni Center parking lot before the football game on Saturday. The event will begin at 9 a.m.
"All the week's events are geared for students and community members to share in the lajayh spirit and sense of community that gives back to Lawrence partners," said Araiza. "It's an easy way to be involved and it's fun."
— Edited by Hannah Wise
Ex.C.E.L award honors leaders
The Excellence in Community, Education and Leadership Award is given out yearly to two University of Kansas students during the Homecoming football game.
"I was really honored," said Emily Lamb, one of the 2011 Ex.C.E.L. award winners. "It was a validation that what I'd done was important and embodying the KU spirit. I realized how important it is to recognize that you can't do it without a team."
The nominees are first nominated by students and faculty. The nominees are then notified and are sent a link to the formal application, where they submit a resume, a letter of recommendation, answer essay questions and then have a panel interview. The committee consists of various representatives from the campus and the Homecoming Alumni Association
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Part of the Ex.C.E.L award is to plan the Blueprints Leadership Conference.
"It was a great honor that helped me to apply work I did on the KU campus while planning the conference," said Hunter Hess, the other
MEGAN LUCAS
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Lamb and Hess based their Blueprints Leadership Conference around "the evolution of a Jayhawk," Hess said.
2011 Ex.C.E.L. award winner.
"While planning, we reflected on what's helped in the progress of becoming a more confident leader," Lamb said. "We put it in a format that was targeted to freshmen and sophomores."
a reflection and an activity based on planning an event through KU.
The conference, held on Feb. 18, 2012, began with the students taking a personality inventory to find out what their top five leadership strengths were. Afterward they had
"We put together a variety of students and assigned tasks."
The Jennifer Alderice Homecoming Award is meant to recognize a student who shows dedication, a positive attitude and involvement at KU.
Award is also given to students.
The award is presented at the Friday night reception by the award's namesake, Jennifer Alderdice. Alderdice worked on the Alumni Association from 1986 to 2009.
"I couldn't be more honored by what the students did when I left," Alderdice said.
"It was validation that what I'd done was important and embodying the KU spirit."
Lamb and Hess are both dedicated to helping students learn the true value of leadership.
tasks," Lamb said.
EMILY LAMB
2011 Ex.C.E.L. Award recipient
"We had different parts of leadership and selected people good at building community, logistics and organizing."
"Your leadership doesn't end at KU," Lamb said. "We are making sure people know how to take what you learned here and can transfer the knowledge to the workplace, after KU."
Along with the Ex.C.E.L. award, the Jennifer Alderice Homecoming
graduate school and after KU."
Edited by Sarah McCabe
HOMECOMING FLASHBACK
A homecoming queen candidate rides around the football stadium in the 1962 homecoming.
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The alumni band plays in the 1981 homecoming parade.